Ida de Tosny le Bigod Toeni

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Ida de Tosny
Noble family de Tosny
Spouse(s) Roger Bigod, 2nd Earl of Norfolk
Father (likely) Ralph IV de Tosny
Mother (likely) Margaret de Beaumont

Ida de Tosny, Countess of Norfolk (died after 1181), was very likely a daughter of Ralph V de Tosny (died 1162) and his wife Margaret (born circa 1125 and living in 1185), a daughter of Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester.[1]

Relationship to King Henry II
Ida de Tosny was a royal ward and mistress of Henry II, King of England, by whom she was mother of one of his illegitimate sons, William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury,[2] (c. 1176 - 7 March 1226), as proven by the discovery of a charter of William mentioning "Comitissa Ida, mater mea" (Countess Ida, my mother).[3] Ida was not the first English royal ward to be taken as a royal mistress. Isabel de Beaumont (Elizabeth de Beaumont), was the ward of King Henry I and the mistress of one of his sons.[4]

Marriage
Around Christmas 1181, Ida de Tosny was given in marriage to Roger Bigod, 2nd Earl of Norfolk by Henry II, together with the manors of Acle, Halvergate and South Walsham, which had been confiscated from his inheritance after his father's death (Hugh Bigod, 1st Earl of Norfolk).[5] Ida and Roger had a number of children including:

Hugh Bigod, 3rd Earl of Norfolk who married in 1206 or 1207, Maud Marshal, a daughter of William Marshal
William Bigod
Roger Bigod
John Bigod
Ralph Bigod
Mary Bigod, married Ralph fitz Robert
Margery Bigod, married William de Hastings
Ida Bigod

Many historians, including Marc Morris have speculated that the couple had a third daughter, Alice, who married Aubrey de Vere IV, 2nd Earl of Oxford as his second wife. However this is highly unlikely as the marriage would have been well within the bounds of consanguinity, for the couple would have been quite closely related, a daughter of the second earl of Norfolk being first cousin once removed to the second earl of Oxford.

Family/Spouse: 2nd Earl of Norfolk, Roger Bigod. Roger was born about 1144; died on 2 Aug 1221. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Hugh le Bigod was born about 1185; died on 18 Feb 1225.

Family/Spouse: Henry II King of England Plantagenet. Henry (son of Geoffrey Plantagenet the Fair Anjou and Empress, Matilda of England Normandie) was born on 5 Mar 1133 in Le Mans, Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France; died on 6 Jul 1189 in Chateau de Chinon, Indre-et-Loire, Centre, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Earl of Salisbury, William Longespee Plantagenet was born in 1176 in England; died on 7 Mar 1226 in Salisbury Castle, Wiltshire, England.